Maria Akritidou studied Modern Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), where in 2007 she completed the interdepartmental postgraduate programme Modern Greek Studies and Culture: (European, Balkan, Eastern), specialising in Literary Theory and Translation Studies. In 2018, she defended her doctoral dissertation at the Chair of Modern Greek Studies at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), focusing on the negotiation of the past in contemporary Greek prose.

Her research interests include the interplay of history and fiction in modern Greek literature, cultural history, the history and theory of publishing, as well as issues in the digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on digital scholarly editing.

She has taught Modern Greek literature and digital philology at postgraduate level at both the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Free University of Berlin and has participated in various European research projects. From 2007 to 2023, she served as a scientific associate (on secondment) at the Centre for the Greek Language, focusing primarily on digital corpora (literary and non-literary texts) and digital educational environments.

• MODIP Profile (with publication list): https://qa.auth.gr/el/cv/akritidoum
• ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3406-315X